Washingtonian Quotes & Sayings

You have to travel globally today to know what's going on and maintain an edge. — Yuri Milner

You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want. — Holly Black

I suffer so much in this life. That is what they [the audience] are feeling when I sing, that is why they cry. People who felt nothing in this life cannot sing. — Enrico Caruso

As a native Washingtonian, I am well aware that childhood obesity is a real problem in our nation's capital. — Daniel Snyder

I'm against eating a human being alive - I don't do it. Somebody might make cannibalism jokes and laugh it off like it's nothing. I don't agree with that. I want to proclaim a rejection of cannibalism. — John Maus

I am careful never to talk about religion. Who am I to kick at people's crutches? — Yann Martel

God is not preparing the Blessing for YOU, He is preparing YOU for the Blessing — T.D. Jakes

I'm a fifth generation Washingtonian and I was born and raised here. My kid's a sixth generation Washingtonian. Honestly I wish people didn't move because I love the people of the city. — Ian MacKaye

Abundant, cheap electricity has been the greatest source of human liberation in the 20th century. — Ross McKitrick

There's a saying in the scientific community, that every great truth goes through three phases. First, people deny it. Second, they say that it conflicts with the Bible. Third, they say that they've known it all along. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

When you live in a lot of places, you can't help but have them become part of you. Technically, I am a Southerner, but I did not grow up in the South. So I'm a Southerner by accident, but a Washingtonian. — Neko Case

The greatest love of all is happening to me.. So goes the popular song. It's a great song. It speaks to the heart, and deeply. It strikes powerfully to uplift the human spirit, at the quest for self-love and self-esteem, the pride in being alive that each of us is entitled to experience simply by being born a human being. — Robert J. White

My particular historical vantage point is a product of my upbringing as that odd duck, a native Washingtonian whose parents were not in government. The first presidential transition of my sentient lifetime, Kennedy's, I remember vividly. — Frank Rich

Perfectionists talk about first love. Realists talk about true love. Optimists talk just about love. — Jasleen Kaur Gumber

The Washingtonian said it shouldn't be built. The gallery's East Building is now considered a triumph, and members of the American Association of Architects have voted it one of the best buildings of all time. — J. Carter Brown

In English, we were still on the Introduction to Poetry Unit, and I'm not lying, if I ever meet Percy Bysshe Shelley walking down the streets of Marysville, I'm going to punch him right in the face. — Gary D. Schmidt

People either have comedy or they don't. You can't teach it to them. — Lucille Ball

I don't consider myself flashy at all. I mean, did I dress like the average Washingtonian? No. — Desiree Rogers

No one should be adored, it's fundamentally immoral. — Kate Millett

WASHINGTONIAN, n. A Potomac tribesman who exchanged the privilege of governing himself for the advantage of good government. In justice to him it should be said that he did not want to. — Ambrose Bierce